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Deir el Medina: plan of town     .


 Plan and section of Deir el-Medina (after Petrie, 1891).


Deir El Medina was a large, walled town adjacent to the New Kingdom Temple and Palace complexes at El Amarna. It was first built in the 18th Dynasty reign of Thutmose I (1524-1518 BC), and continued in use into the 20th Dynasty. Residents of the town were primarily the builders and and craftsmen who built the Royal temples and other edifaces.

The site was first excavated by Flinders Petrie and his co-workers in the 1890s, revealing the rectangular grid plan of the settlement surrounded by a brick enclosure. The colored area of houses adjoining the north wall, shown in this plan, was excavated and mapped in detail by Petrie (1891).
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